Tech Pain: Life Hacks for Living Pain Free in a Connected World

As the use of mobile technology has rapidly evolved for both work and leisure, we are seeing changes in upper body posture and pain associated with those changes. Nearly 45% of the World's population owns smartphones and even more have access to computers.Over the last 10 years, more people have sought treatment in clinics for headaches, neck, and shoulder pain than ever before. And when observed in the clinic using their devices, their posture pattern has often been the same - forward head, rounded shoulders, and hunched over. Something needs to change to help these individuals so they can work and play without pain."Tech Pain" is designed to provide busy professionals with short stories and practical information that can be easily digested and remembered so they can fix their own pain related to use of technology. Brian was inspired to help others after watching his own Mother become dependent on a health care provider to help her feel better. That health care provider, whether intentionally or not, never provided her the tools to be able to help her be more active in her own care. Brian vowed to never allow that to happen to his clients. Kristen is passionate about ergonomics and, due to the increased frequency of her work travel over the last few years, she can't help but observe an expanding sea of people with poor posture at the airport, on airplanes and at coffee shops and hopes to help people learn how to help themselves. With topics covered including why you should care about your posture, stress reduction, and the 5-minute Posture Fix(TM), this book teaches the reader how to effectively deal with tech-related pain.With over 50 years of combined clinical experience and having personally worked with tens of thousands of clients, we found ourselves telling them the same thing over again, all the while getting superb clinical outcomes for these individuals. We kept saying, "If we only had a book for you to read about this, it would be so much easier." So here it is.